In France, when Cecile runs away with Felix, a musician, but does not marry him, her infuriated uncle has Felix thrown in prison and drags Cecile back home. She runs away again, however, this time to Paris, where, under the tutelage of Lecoq, the director of the Grand Opera, she becomes a prima ballerina. Meanwhile, Felix, now out of jail, finishes an opera and, after sending it to Lecoq, learns that it has become a Paris sensation, and that Lecoq claims to be its author. Felix finally coerces Lecoq into admitting his plagiarism, and then goes to confront Cecile, who he believes deserted him. He finds that she has suffered a foot injury that will prevent her from dancing ever again, and then, after first refusing to forgive her, he is reconciled with Cecile, after which they make plans for their ...
+−

In France, when Cecile runs away with Felix, a musician, but does not marry him, her infuriated uncle has Felix thrown in prison and drags Cecile back home. She runs away again, however, this time to Paris, where, under the tutelage of Lecoq, the director of the Grand Opera, she becomes a prima ballerina. Meanwhile, Felix, now out of jail, finishes an opera and, after sending it to Lecoq, learns that it has become a Paris sensation, and that Lecoq claims to be its author. Felix finally coerces Lecoq into admitting his plagiarism, and then goes to confront Cecile, who he believes deserted him. He finds that she has suffered a foot injury that will prevent her from dancing ever again, and then, after first refusing to forgive her, he is reconciled with Cecile, after which they make plans for their marriage.
+−

Seventy-year-old newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies in his palatial Florida home, Xanadu, after uttering the single word “Rosebud.” While watching a newsreel summarizing the years during which Kane ... >>

The American Film Institute is grateful to Sir Paul Getty KBE and the Sir Paul Getty KBE Estate for their dedication to the art of the moving image and their support for the
AFI Catalog of Feature Films and without whose support AFI would not have been able to achieve this historical landmark in this epic scholarly endeavor.